A basic spaghetti sauce recipe made more Weight Watcher friendly by just changing a few simple ingredients around and lightening it up a bit. Serve over one cup of pasta for a satisfying meal!
This recipe is hands down my favorite Spaghetti meat sauce. My Mom used to make this for my brother and me all the time when we were kids and we just loved it. I wanted to still be able to eat this while following WW and there weren't too many ingredients that needed to be changed. The only ingredient that I did change was to use 93% lean ground beef instead of 80% ground beef.
Tips for Spaghetti Sauce
Can you freeze this recipe? Yes, you can. Use gallon size freezer bags and put the leftovers in there. It does make a lot too. When you are ready to use it again, take the bag out of the freezer and let it defrost. Then heat it up in a saucepan.
You can add this sauce to the of some garlic bread and have Italian Sloppy Joes, make lasagna with it, or just serve it over some spaghetti noodles.
96% lean ground beef can be substituted for 93% ground beef. I find it at Wal-Mart or Aldis.
This recipe can also be adapted for the Instant Pot.
Instant Pot Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
How to Make Spaghetti and Meat Sauce
For the full recipe see the recipe card below
- Chop onion and cook it in a skillet over medium-high heat until the onion is cooked through. About 5-7 minutes.
- Add the ground beef to the skillet and cook until the beef is no longer pink in the middle. Drain any extra fat.
- Continue adding the tomato sauce, tomato paste, sauce mix, water, and seasonings to the skillet. Stir really well and let the spaghetti sauce simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. When the cooking is done remove the bay leaf out.
Make sure to top it with some parmesan cheese!
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The only Spaghetti Sauce!
- Yield: 8 1x
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean Ground Beef 93%
- ¼ cup chopped onion
- 1 15 oz can tomato sauce
- 1 12 oz can tomato paste
- 1 envelope Italian Mushroom spaghetti sauce mix
- 1 ½ cups water
- ½ tablespoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon oregano leaves
- 1 clove garlic crushed
- 1 bay leave crumbled.
Instructions
- Chop onion and cook it in a skillet over medium-high heat until the onion is cooked through. About 5-7 minutes.
- Add the ground beef to the skillet and cook until the beef is no longer pink in the middle. Drain any extra fat.
- Continue adding the tomato sauce, tomato paste, sauce mix, water, and seasonings to the skillet. Stir really well and let the spaghetti sauce simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. When the cooking is done remove the bay leaf out.
- Makes 8 servings:
- Serving size: 1 heaping ½ cup
Notes
myWW points: Blue 3; Green 3; Purple 3
Nutrition
- Serving Size: ½ cup
- Calories: 199
- Fat: 11.7
- Carbohydrates: 12.7
- Fiber: 2.9
- Protein: 12.4
I am not affiliated with WW formerly known as Weight Watchers in any way. I am just a member who likes to create WW recipes and share them with everyone. Freestyle is the name of the current program of WW and smart points are calculated for the recipes. Some blogs list them as freestyle smart points and some list them as smart points. There is no difference between the 2.
How is this a WW recipe? NO FOOD is off limits on WW and WW themselves stresses that a lot on their social media pages. That is one reason why I love WW. You can pretty much eat ANYTHING just as long as you stay in your daily points range for that
Joel says
Looks really delicious.